RT @GillesFacon: raki, kofte, ayran, akbil, … this must be #istanbul my friend
Tulips blooming in Istanbul
5 million tulips in the amazing bi-continental city; you should visit Istanbul in Tulip Fest time..
Travel Writer Peggy Tee tells Istanbul experiences
We landed in a torrential downpour of rain and Istanbul’s greeting to us was a two hour traffic jam that started on the highways and jerked, stopped, and lurched its way over the Eastern side, over the great winged expanse of the Bosphorus Bridge, over into Europe, a slow crawl down Taksim, past the Galata Tower and across the Galata Bridge. In the greyness of the evening our driver points out the hazy, inconsequential silhouette of a mosque with six spires - the Blue Mosque, my first glimpse. The water of the river is defiantly turquoise, even in the dead light, and we cross continents easily, albeit slowly.
Have you ever watched sunset over Europe from Asia?
